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News and Trends 17 Jan 2023

Poolbeg expands POLB 001 into oncology

Poolbeg Pharma has announced the strategic expansion of POLB 001 into oncology. POLB 001 is a strain agnostic, small molecule immunomodulator being studied to address the unmet medical need for a treatment for severe influenza. While investigating the role of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) in severe influenza, Poolbeg discovered data specific to the overt immune […]

January 17, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

In Depth 5 Jan 2023

Navignostics maps tumor proteomes to improve precision oncology

New cancer drugs are entering the market every year, but it’s hard to know which patients they benefit the most. The Swiss firm Navignostics is making spatial maps of the tumor’s proteome to identify the right treatment for the patient and boost precision oncology approaches. A wide range of technologies is being deployed in the […]

January 5, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 8 Dec 2022

Laevoroc Oncology pushes for relapsed leukemia cure

Laevoroc Oncology, a privately-owned, Swiss oncology development company, has announced the publication of key preclinical data carried out at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), which provides mechanistic insights into the immunoregulatory functions of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) with Laevoroc’s PNP inhibitor, LR 09. The research shows that PNP is a novel metabolic immune […]

December 8, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Dec 2022

Partnership to deliver oncology workflow for 7 European hospitals

A BC Platforms (BCP) partnership that includes Finland’s Euformatics and Hungary’s Oncompass Medicine has been awarded a contract for the second phase of developing standardized oncology workflows for a buyer consortium of seven European hospitals, represented by the Medical University Graz. The consortium is formed by hospitals from the Medical University of Graz in Austria, […]

December 2, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 2 Nov 2022

Alkermes to separate oncology business

Alkermes plc is to explore separating its commercial-stage neuroscience business and development-stage oncology business. The company, its board and external financial and legal advisors plan to explore a separation of the oncology business into an independent, publicly-traded company (Oncology Co.) as part of an ongoing review of strategic alternatives for the oncology business. Alkermes said […]

November 2, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Oct 2022

First patient dosed in trial to assess predictive performance of immuno-oncology therapy

The first patient has been dosed at the Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney as part of a clinical trial to evaluate whether a drug can predict patient response to immuno-oncology therapy targeting a number of solid tumor types. ImaginAb Inc. is a biotech company developing 89Zr crefmirlimab berdoxam (CD8 ImmunoPET) imaging agent and next generation […]

October 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Oct 2022

Odyssey Therapeutics raises $168M for oncology medicine portfolio

Biotech company Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc. has announced it has raised $168 million in series B financing. Odyssey Therapeutics is working on next generation precision immunomodulators and oncology medicines. The current round brings the total capital raised to $386 million. The proceeds will enable Odyssey to advance its portfolio of precision immunomodulators and oncology medicines in […]

October 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 23 Sep 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 15: Cullinan Oncology, Pleco Therapeutics, TikoMed

This week’s podcast has three guests. In honor of World Cancer Research Day on September 24, we have an overview of cancer research with Nadim Ahmed, CEO of Cullinan Oncology; a chat with Ivo Timmermans, CEO of Pleco Therapeutics; and talk with Anders Kristensson, CEO of TikoMed. We also have our weekly chat with global […]

September 23, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 26 Aug 2022

Aktis Oncology raises millions in funding bringing total to $161M

Aktis Oncology announced yesterday (August 25) that it has raised a series A extension financing of $84 million bringing its total capital raised to date to $161 million. The Massachusetts-based company develops targeted alpha radiopharmaceuticals to treat a broad range of solid tumors. Aktis Oncology‘s investors The extension included participation from new health investors Cowen […]

August 26, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 4 Aug 2022

Sanofi and Innovent Biologics to collaborate on oncology medicines and boost China presence

Sanofi and Innovent Biologics are to collaborate on providing medicines to patients in China with difficult-to-treat cancers. Innovent is a biopharmaceutical company with clinical development capabilities and a broad commercial footprint in China. Both companies said they are committed to accelerating the development and commercialization of two Sanofi key clinical stage oncology assets: Phase III […]

August 4, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Ryvu Therapeutics bags €22M from EIB to work on new cancer treatments

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics partner to push immuno-oncology candidates into the clinic

Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics, Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to advance two of Marengo’s preclinical STAR platform-generated candidates into the clinic. Ipsen also announced it is exercising its option to acquire exclusive worldwide rights to an investigational ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) inhibitor, discovered by AGV Discovery. Ipsen and Marengo Therapeutics details The collaboration between […]

August 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 1 Aug 2022

BioMed X Institute and Merck start new oncology research project

BioMed X, a German independent research institute, has started a new research project ‘Extrachromosomal DNA in Cancer’ (EDC) in collaboration with the Healthcare Business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The main objective of this research group is to develop an atlas of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in human cancer tissues and trace back the mechanisms of […]

August 1, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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